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Last week, Aaron was quite ill. It started off with a cold and a bit of a cough and then on Sunday afternoon, he started to come out in a rash all over his body. It looked like Chicken Pox, but he had already had that, so we thought it must be something else.

The following morning, the rash had spread all over him so Kelly took him to the doctors and was told it was hives due to an allergic reaction to the cold virus that he was fighting off. He was given some cream and some medicine to take, but the next day it got worse in that his feet started to swell up. So Kelly had to take him to the doctors again and was told this time that he had Angioedema, which is the proper term for an allergic reaction that can cause swelling all over the body, but could also affect breathing due to the swelling. We couldn’t do anymore for him apart from make sure he took his medicine and put the cream on him.

He wasn’t too bad the following day (which happened to be Ben’s 6th birthday), but on the Thursday we got up to find he had swelling around his eyes, which was absolutely awful. He didn’t look like Aaron at all and was very scary. Kelly immediately rang NHS Direct and they told us to take him to the doctors as soon as possible, and that we may even have to take him to hospital.  So Kelly made another trip to the doctors and saw a third different doctor (!) and he said he would ring the hospital for a second opinion but he thought Aaron wasn’t bad enough to send him straight in there.  We had to wait half the day for a call back, which never happened, so Kelly ended up ringing again to find out what was going on, as we were all ready and prepared to go to the hospital if we needed to. In the end, the stupid doctor didn’t bother ringing us back at all, so Kelly called and he said he had spoken to the hospital and they prescribed a slightly different medicine but not to take him in unless he got any worse! What a day!

Luckily the next day, it seemed like the new medicine had started to work its magic and he looked a bit better, and his rash had gone down slightly. He was still a bit puffy in places and bruised on his feet from the swelling from earlier in the week, but much better thank God. He was also well enough to go to Ben’s birthday party as well though he was very tired by the end.

By Sunday he was almost as good as new, but what a horrible week we had but we are just glad it didn’t get any worse!

Here are a couple of pictures of him when his face was swollen (excuse the dirty nose!)

Since Tuesday this week, Aaron has been very poorly indeed.  He has had a very high temperature with it reaching 39.5 degrees at one point! Kelly has hardly slept as he hasn’t wanted to sleep in his cot so she has had to stay up with him. The poor little man still had an appetite but was sooo hot all the time and just didn’t look very well at all. On Tuesday night Kelly got hold of NHS Direct for some advice as we were quite worried due to his high temperature, and they said that if it got to 40 degrees, then we should call a doctor.

Luckily, it didn’t reach that high, but stayed high enough for Kelly to call our normal Doctors on Thursday but they were useless as usual. They had no appointments so a doctor called her back and basically said the opposite to the NHS direct doctor. Our doctor said it was probably viral and it would pass in 7 to 10 days – no offer of a check over just in case or anything! In the end, the little man started to lose his high temperature during the day but still wouldn’t settle on his own to go to sleep even though he was absolutely shattered. In the end, I took him out for a ride in the car at half 10 last night to see if that would make a difference, and it did thankfully. Aaron feel asleep in the car but unfortunately woke when we got home. Even so, it didn’t take too much effort to get him back to sleep and he managed to stay in his cot and slept most of the night – not getting up till about 8am. Phew!

So, it looks like the worst of it is over now so fingers crossed he will make a full recovery in the next day or so and that we will all, finally, get a good nights sleep tonight!